When Johann Conrad Brück was born in 1598, in Urexweiler, Sankt Wendel, Saarland, Germany, his father, Johannes Brück, was 26 and his mother, Anna Burckhardt, was 22. He married Anna Margaretha Reuther on 28 August 1622, in St Johann, Poggersdorf, Klagenfurt Land, Carinthia, Austria. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 4 daughters. His occupation is listed as wollenweber in St Johann, Poggersdorf, Klagenfurt Land, Carinthia, Austria. He died on 21 December 1673, in St Johann, Poggersdorf, Klagenfurt Land, Carinthia, Austria, at the age of 75.
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The Ottomans are driven out of Austria.
Beginning of the Thirty Years War. The Protestants in Bohemia revolt against the Catholic Hapsburg emperor.
The Thirty Years War ends. The Peace of Westphalia is signed. The Hapsburgs declare Roman Catholicism as the official Austrian religion.
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German (also Brück): topographic name for someone who lived near a bridge, or an occupational name for a bridge keeper or toll collector on a bridge, from Middle High German bruck(e) ‘bridge’. Bruck remained the Bavarian and Austrian form, reflected in placenames such as Innsbruck, whereas in central and northern Germany Brück(e) was the regular and ultimately standard form, as for example in the placename Osnabrück. Switzerland has both forms. See also Brueck .
Jewish (from Poland and Belarus): from Polish, Belorussian, or Yiddish bruk ‘pavement’, possibly a metonymic occupational name for a paver.
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